The Globus Consortium announced that Cisco has joined as a contributor to the open source Globus Toolkit. This could be big news if you consider how important networking is to Grid, and the fact that Cisco already has such an enormous installed base. Also makes me wonder if Cisco will finally move into full-scale systems management applications, which seems to be missing for them.
"Grid will continue to push more intelligence into the network," said Ian Foster, Board Member with the Globus Consortium. "There will also be a blurring of the boundaries between the network, the operating systems and the middleware."
This month's Globus Journal features several Cisco guys talking about the importance of networking in Grid.
Posted by Dave Rosenberg on October 12, 2005 11:08 AM
